We need to know how last week happened. Without this first point, we'll never get any of the next important things done.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Got an email from John yesterday. He said, I want to echo a lot of what people are saying about being thankful for the election results. I liked the comment this morning about how God gave us our president back. We had a wonderful woman from Virginia call in and talked about how we need to pray for

our president. And she said this, I've never heard it like this is so good God gave us our president back that's a really nice way of thinking about but I hear a lot of explaining and analyzing going on that tends to pave over God's role in the whole process if you stopped and asked any conservative three years ago if Trump was gonna win reelection in a landslide the best answer you would have gotten was unlikely three years ago

we weren't even sure if he was gonna run let alone will he win? And who was the person who was like, oh yeah, landslide. Many would have said it would have been a miracle. Well now here we are. But since it's happened, it all seems perfectly reasonable and even expected. Looking back though, God's fingerprints are all over this. I think we need to be aware of our tendency to steal the glory that is due to God and attribute it elsewhere. I've been encouraged by the conservative

commentators who put Thanksgiving and glory to God at the forefront of their responses to this election. We do that all the time with everything. I think about this all the time with history. It's like, oh yeah, well of course we won World War II. And you just think that just because, well, that's what happened, but there was no of course. It's like we barely won it. Like miracles throughout the whole process that resulted in victory.

But you look back, you're like, oh yeah, of course the Founding Fathers won the Revolutionary War. Duh. Well, no, not duh. It's impossible for them to have won it. And there's so many stories like that in our history where you look back, you're like, well yeah, of course Trump won.

What do you mean of course Trump won? There was no... I got that email and then I read, got that email I think on Monday night and this morning I read Psalm 108 and they line up perfectly. The end of Psalm 108 says, who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me to Edom?

This is David writing. He's talking about attacking a city. Is it not you, O God, who cast us off? And you, O God, who did not go out with our armies? Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless. Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who shall tread down our enemies.

So what's going on here? So Edom, super strong people, David was attacking them, and he was asking for God's hand in this battle. Petra was that strong city in particular. This is a commentary that says, David prayed this prayer in light of recent defeats,

recognizing that those defeats came because God's favor did not shine upon Israel's army. Is it not you, O God, who cast us off, and you, O God, who did not go out with our armies Right, so God did not shine upon Israel's armies That's why they lost their previous battles and if God did not go out with our armies again this time

Then there's no hope for victory Because the help of man is useless When people go into battle and win we pat ourselves on the back we did such a great job Yeah, you forgot about God's blessing that resulted in your victory same thing with anything that good that happens in our life or in our country we sit back and say oh man I did a great

job there I am really something special no you can't do anything you can't walk beat without God. You did nothing. And we can be brave, we can do impressive things, but without God, it's nothing. He's in total control and in charge and has all the power. David used to look for military solutions to military problems, but that's nothing compared to God's will. So we got to make sure we give God all the credit for everything always. The classic story of this, of course, is Gideon started out with his army of 32,000,

because we've got to go defeat the bad guys, and we need as many people as possible, because we want to win on our own. And then God told him it was too big, too many people, make it smaller. So he whittled it down to 10,000. And God's like, nope, still too big, whittled it down to 300. Why?

Judges 7-2, the Lord said to Gideon, you have too many men for me to deliver Midian into your hands, in order that Israel may not boast against me, that her own strength has saved her." I'm going to whittle down your army even more and more and more. Down to 300. Then they won.

And then it's like, wait, what? There's no way 300 men could have defeated that army. There were 135,000 of the enemy. So 300 versus 135,000, is it because the 300 were so strong? No. So great reminder from John and then just happened to have read Psalm 108 this morning to give glory to God in all things. I'll leave you with one more. Also read Psalm 102 this morning. This idea of forever stood out to me.

This morning's show, we talked about how we need to make MAGA bigger than Trump and make the movement last longer than just the next four years. And there was a lot of hurrying going on right now with things. It just feels like we've got to hurry up, we've got to speed through, we've got stuff to do now. And it's true, we gotta do this

because the deep state's gonna swallow this whole thing whole if we don't act fast and get it done. And I've said a lot, a lot of the last two days, that we don't have four years to get stuff done because we got an election in two years. But those two years are really set up in the first 100 days.

And we don't even really have 100 days, it's really just now. It's the set up, the foundation, the people that Trump is putting in power now is what's gonna make the difference for the next 100 days. So it's really every day. And we don't even have the rest of the day. We really got this afternoon.

We got to go, go, go. Right. And it's like, ah, but Psalm 102 can put things into perspective nicely. The end of Psalm 102 says, your years are throughout all generations of old. You laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, they will all grow old like a garment, like a cloak, you will change them. And they will be changed, but you are the same.

And your years will have no end. So while we're thinking politically about, you know, MAGA in four years, in eight years, and J.D. Vance setting up, you know, and then Ron DeSantis, right? We're thinking about like all these elections move forward

and, you know, we're talking about the 2026 Senate election and what the map looks like. We're so focused on time. That can lead to anxiety.

Just know that God is forever. Know that God is good and God is forever. And he has no end. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript and commercial free. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript and commercial free. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

Some people are terrified of Trump being president. It's our job to prove them wrong by doing what's right and good. We also need to help people see how hysterical the media has made them. If you have any additions to our "Trump Fear Master List" please send a tweet to Slaterradio.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thank you for being here. Today's show is fun on SiriusXM Patriot. Just very short of what we did, someone called in yesterday and said their son and daughter-in-law has TDS and he just wants some advice on how to help them. I happen to write a book on this called How to Change Someone's Mind.

It's $5. I think I get $1.22 or something every time you buy one. But someone called in with the advice of ask your family member, friend, co-worker to write out their fears. Literally write out what you're afraid of in a Trump presidency, what he will do. And then we had a teacher from Delaware call in and said, I actually did that with my students,

my high school students. And they wrote out, you know, Trump's going to ban all contraception or whatever. Actually got to add that one to the list. Anyway, so we did it on the radio today. I said, all right, call in. I don't think I wrote this one down. Yeah, right down. A band contraception. And, um,

people called in with their friends, family, coworkers, what they've heard about, uh, what they're scared about with Trump. And I mean, it's crazy. Like they're, someone called and said their gay stepson says that Trump's going to go after gay rights. I don't even know what that means. Trump is going to track menstrual cycles.

There's going to be more school shootings, more pregnancy deaths, more people dying from curable diseases, more white cops killing black people, Muslims and Latinos dying in deportation camps, the elimination of the constitution, no more voting, eliminate social security. My grown daughter believes she won't be able to access her bank account or open a new one without her husband's signature.

Dictator on day one. So the reason you write these out because it's just good for you to get it out of your head. But also we can come back, well on day two we can come back and be like, well he's not a dictator on day one, so that one's not true. But we can come back six months, a year, two years later, four years later and say, hey listen, you were made hysterical. Let's see if any of these things came true. Okay?

And then when none of them did, hopefully they realized that they were made hysterical by the media. And then scales can fall from the rise. So that was fun and important and I'm putting together this list

and I'll send it over to the guys at Breitbart and maybe they'll put it up on the website there and we can keep adding to their fears and we will prove them wrong. So today I wanna talk about Isaiah 49 15. Can a woman forget her nursing child and not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Surely they may forget. Hold on. A woman would forget to take care of her child? They may. But God says, Yet I will not forget you.

Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. The point here is as much as a new mom wants to take care of and love her newborn baby. God loves you more. God is saying that he has you inscribed on the palms of his hands. When I first read this you can think that it's like someone has God written on their hands. No, no, no. God has you on his. Two points here. This is a permanent remembrance. I say that the King James

Version, I think it speaks more to this permanence. It says, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. I've graven you. So it speaks to a permanency and it speaks to an intimacy. You're carved on his hands. His loving, tender, caring hands. And the point of this section is that even when things look tough, God has not forgotten the Israelites and his plan for them has never changed. God keeps his promises and it's a foreshadowing I believe to Jesus and the nails that went through his

hands for you when after the resurrection he said look at my hands but one of my favorite aspects of this and this just drives it home even more, and I didn't pick up on it, of course Spurgeon did. Notice the scripture doesn't say, God doesn't say, I have engraved your name on my hand. And that'd be nice. Mike Slater, there it is right there.

No, it says, I have inscribed your person, your image, your case, your circumstances, your sins, your temptations, your weaknesses, your wants, your works. I have graven thee, everything about you, all that concerns you. I have put every bit of you right there in my hands. If that is true, and it is, can you ever again say that your God has forsaken you? How can you ever think that when it says here that He has engraved you, everything about you, all of you, the fullness of you, on His hands? We've got to stop worrying about on his hands.

We got to stop worrying about things.

I'll give you a political one, but you know, there's more of these in your life than this one. I think we made the point the other day that it is better that Trump be the president now than in 2020. In 2020, he didn't have the Democrats at the House and the Senate. And Mike Pence was the vice president, and there were a

bunch of like Mike Kellys in his administration. And now Trump will have the House and the Senate for Republican control, and JD Vance has been swapped out for Mike Pence, or Mike Pence has been swapped out in for JD,

and all the deep state guys are gone. It's a totally way, way better scenario now, actually. And you have better examples in your life of something that happened and it seemed terrible. Maybe it was terrible and you didn't know why. And years go by, decades can go by.

And you're like, oh, oh yeah, oh, okay. Like we need to never forget those moments because it helps us realize, oh yeah, he, I, I am engraved in his loving hands. We need to stop worrying about things. in His loving hands.

We need to stop worrying about things. That doesn't mean we'd stop caring. Doesn't mean we'd stop engaging. Just stop worrying. And we can say that with great confidence because the Scriptures say,

don't worry. Let all of this be another reminder that God is in control and loves you. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Mike Slater dot locals dot com I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Mike Slater dot locals dot com transcript and no commercials on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com

There is plenty to celebrate today and a lot to be excited about. As for Trump, will he be a Jehu or will God use him as a Josiah? Either way, we have our commission. 

Politics by Faith brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Here we go, our first episode since the election that Donald Trump won and Republicans took the Senate and most likely will now take the House. And to get even more excited about this, the 250th anniversary of America is coming up in two years now. I brought this up about a year or so ago.

I was like, we're coming up on the 250 and no one did. So I looked at the bicentennial and it was like a 10 year buildup of committees and figuring out what they were gonna do and they were gonna have one big party. They decided to have a bunch of little parties

across the country, smaller parties, but it was like a whole thing and they had a logo. And it was a 10 year process and we're two years away and no one's done anything. And sure enough, Donald Trump, the very first video he made after he won was about the party he's gonna throw

for our 250th anniversary. I just think about what party Kamala would have thrown. Right, if the left was in charge, it'd be like, like one big, like America is evil and awful, and we had slavery, like, like struggle session instead of what we're gonna do now.

But not only do we have 250th anniversary, the 2026 World Cup is in America, and the 2028 Olympics are in Los Angeles. Come on now. It's going to be a fun four years. It really is.

It's going to be a fun four years because the left is not only did we win but just the left was soundly rebuked and we can now get down to business. It's also better that Trump is the president now than in 2020 because if he won in 2020, then he would have had a Democrat house and a Democrat Senate. So nothing would have happened, just impeachment. He would have been impeached 142 times.

None of his appointments would have gotten through the Senate. Nothing would happen. And there was one Supreme Court fulfillment that Biden did. There's a chance, certainly Biden will, excuse me, Trump will do two now. Clarence Thomas and Alito. Sonia Sotomayor has some health issues so there may be three again. But even if Trump just appoints these next two, he will have appointed a majority of the Supreme

Court. That has only happened, see I wrote this down somewhere, that's only happened Lincoln and Taft and Trump. Incredible. So it's gonna be a fun next few years and and the way God works it's better to have Trump be present. Oh also Trump got rid of all this deep state guys that were in his cabinet right there's no more Mike Kelly's there anymore. Got rid of Pence and replaced him with JD Vance and there's way more of a future now for the MAGA movement moving forward than there would have been if Trump was the president in 2020.

So this is way better. And I hope you're feeling good about it. I got a wonderful text from my wife yesterday. I thought was really good. She said when the election results are coming in, she said, I'm so happy for him in our country. God is so good to us because Kamala is what we deserve. I think that's right. And I'm excited for the next four years because sure we won on Tuesday, but now we have to

win every day. We have to govern every day. We have to do what is right every day. And there's no excuses right now because the left has no control over anything. No excuses. We have to be great and we have to do well and we have to do good.

Proverbs 11 5 says, The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. And then verse 10, When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of gladness. I want to steal a point from Josh Howerton. He said,

We did not elect a perfect man. He said, We elected Jehu. His point is, we need to keep praying. It's not like we won. Yay, hooray, we're done. No, no, no, you got to keep praying always. We didn't elect a perfect man. He said, We elected a Jehu, a flawed leader who defeated a greater evil, not a Josiah, a righteous leader who led a national revival.

And that comes with its risks. So let's chat about that. So who's Jehu? The king of Israel before him was Ahab, and he was awful. That's not my assessment, that is God's. First Kings 1630 says that Ahab did more evil

in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. He married Jezebel, and they worshiped Baal, and just couldn't have been worse. So God chose Jehu to enact his judgment against Ahab and Ahab's family. And Jehu, among other things, he killed all the priests of Baal and destroyed their temple for Baal worship and restored the kingdom. And God was happy. Second Kings 10 says that the

Lord said to Jehu, because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." Pretty good. But Jehu did not destroy all the idols in Israel. He did not destroy the golden calves. The Bible says, but Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat,

which he made Israel to sin. That is the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan. So even though Baal worship was gone, other types of idolatry remained. And there's questions like, why not? Like, what's up, Jehu?

Why did you go all the way? There's one theory, and I don't know, but there's one theory that Baal was seen as a foreign god. So he's like, let's get rid of that, but the golden calves are seen as more of like a like a domestic god, created and installed by Israel, so he didn't get rid of those. We don't

exactly know why he didn't get rid of it, but God wasn't happy and he decreased the size and power of of Israel when he was king. I like this analysis. Through Jehu, we can learn that although it is true that God blesses and grants success to those who seek to obey him, which we must, God also can and will pull away his blessing from one who willfully chooses to live in sin. As Jesus says in Matthew 6 24, no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate one and love the other or you will be devoted to one and despise the other. We cannot serve God while continuing to

hold on to false gods. So the argument from Josh Howerton is that Trump could be more like Jehu, meaning way better than Ahab, and still do amazing things, but not fully what we need, as opposed to a Josiah. Josiah was the son and grandson of two wicked kings, began his reign at eight, and this is when they rediscovered the law of the Lord. 2 Kings 22. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. Josiah, he did it right. He rebuilt the temple and when

they found the book of the law he mourned and repented and led a national repentance and revival. Now who knows, I don't know what's going to happen in the next four years. Maybe Trump can do that too. God can do amazing things. But I'm okay with Trump leading the political effort and the rest. You know, we can do ourselves. I don't say we can do ourselves. God can work through us too. Not everything has to go through one man.

We should do a study on Josiah. God said, before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him." So we need to keep praying for Trump, the people around him, goodness, just our government in general, this country.

We won an election, but we didn't save our country yet. You with me? We have a lot of stuff to do. But then the main priority, of course, we can't forget, is to save souls. That's our main job, make disciples,

to live godly lives, glorify God in all that we do, whether we're governing countries, or parents, kids, employees, whatever it is. Oh, I got a great email. This is perfect. I just got a wonderful email.

I got a ton of emails today. So where am I gonna find this? I could press pause and just come back momentarily.

Here it is. It's from Steven.

Always encouraged to hear your show, keep up the good work. Here I'm putting my 38 years of industry experience to use by training up godly computer scientists to go into the mission field of technology. Isn't that awesome?

He's a professor at a university. He's training up godly, not just computer scientists, to go get a job. He's training up godly computer scientists to go into a mission field that is technology. That is a perfect example, that's from Stephen,

of glorifying God in whatever we do. Wonderful. And there's ways to glorify God through political processes and it's gonna be fun and it's gonna be exciting and we are gonna make people's lives better. We had a phone call yesterday from somebody who's like,

hey, let's not over complicate what happened here. The Biden-Harris administration passed policies, mainly $6 trillion in new spending and open borders. They did those two things and it hurt people. I was gonna say made people's lives worse. That's true too, but it hurt people.

Their policies hurt people. We need to now enact policies that help people. We're going to make people's lives better. But we also can't lose sight of salvation. That's the ultimate goal. Political leaders come and go.

God is forever. We have to always focus on Him first and foremost. Praise Him and glorify Him. MikeSlater.Locals.com Transcript and no commercials. Transcript and no commercials. MikeSlater.Locals.com